Album

Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices

Album

Complete Sacred Music for Five Voices

While perhaps less noticeable to today's ears, these Italian motets present innovative chromatic turns of harmony and melody that exist nowhere else in the music of the Renaissance. Gesualdo's novel, iconoclastic compositional style was influenced by his tumultuous emotional life, which was marked by depression, broken relationships, and physical self-torture.

About This Album

While perhaps less noticeable to today's ears, these Italian motets present innovative chromatic turns of harmony and melody that exist nowhere else in the music of the Renaissance. Gesualdo's novel, iconoclastic compositional style was influenced by his tumultuous emotional life, which was marked by depression, broken relationships, and physical self-torture.

About This Album

While perhaps less noticeable to today's ears, these Italian motets present innovative chromatic turns of harmony and melody that exist nowhere else in the music of the Renaissance. Gesualdo's novel, iconoclastic compositional style was influenced by his tumultuous emotional life, which was marked by depression, broken relationships, and physical self-torture.